Unicorn chaser
Oct. 10th, 2013 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livI am surprisingly reluctant to leave that anti-semitism post at the top of my journal. So, have some links to random cool or interesting stuff.
I'm not a fan of Welcome to Night Vale, in fact, I haven't even listened to WtNV because I haven't yet figured out how to make podcasts part of my life. But I think I might be a fan of WtNV fandom. I love how much beautifully drawn fanart it seems to inspire, I love the extensive fanon, I love the community that seems to be springing up around the show. And the meta, omg the meta!kate_nepveu as well as several other people linked to this Queer reading by thingswithwings, and also to a poignant but very well argued take on disability issues.
Two really strong posts about moving through the world as a woman who isn't conventionally pretty or sexy that have been passed around a lot recently:
My embarrassing picture went viral
Of tiny pink dumbbells and fat chicks
Neither post is completely body-positive, and they may be difficult reading for people who have issues around weight or body image. And they're talking about ways to respond to and transform some really horrible judgementalism and bullying, but I found both of them inspiring in spite of those negative contexts.
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mrissa gave rosefox promptly wrote a beautiful sestina about a moth that fits very well into a hardboiled detective story, which I am utterly in love with.
I never normally bother with cute animal pics, because there's more than plenty of those all over the internet. But![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
pitchercries linked to one of those characteristically Tumblr reblog with picture conversations of fennecs, and even my flinty heart is a little bit softened by those EARS.
I'm not a fan of Welcome to Night Vale, in fact, I haven't even listened to WtNV because I haven't yet figured out how to make podcasts part of my life. But I think I might be a fan of WtNV fandom. I love how much beautifully drawn fanart it seems to inspire, I love the extensive fanon, I love the community that seems to be springing up around the show. And the meta, omg the meta!
kate_nepveu as well as several other people linked to this Queer reading by thingswithwings, and also to a poignant but very well argued take on disability issues.Two really strong posts about moving through the world as a woman who isn't conventionally pretty or sexy that have been passed around a lot recently:
My embarrassing picture went viral
Of tiny pink dumbbells and fat chicks
Neither post is completely body-positive, and they may be difficult reading for people who have issues around weight or body image. And they're talking about ways to respond to and transform some really horrible judgementalism and bullying, but I found both of them inspiring in spite of those negative contexts.
mrissa gave a really beautiful sestina about a mothas an example of something that would be out of place in a hardboiled detective story. And
rosefox promptly wrote a beautiful sestina about a moth that fits very well into a hardboiled detective story, which I am utterly in love with. I never normally bother with cute animal pics, because there's more than plenty of those all over the internet. But
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